{"id":353,"date":"2009-10-31T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-10-31T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T02:00:00","slug":"yellow-rumped-warbler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Yellow-rumped Warbler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 22 \u2013 another beautiful, clear, sunny fall day, breezy and cool, with a big blue sky marbled in high white clouds \u2013 I first heard the sharp <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">chip!<\/span> calls of several Yellow-rumped Warblers in a row of young water oaks along the road. Because it was late in the morning with the sun high and bright, I couldn\u2019t quite see one among the still-thick leaves on the oaks, but a day or two later several Yellow-rumped Warblers searched for insects in low branches in our front yard, and I was able to get a good look and watch them for a while \u2013 small, streaked, rather drab little birds with a faint flush of yellow on their sides, and the distinctive flash of yellow on the rump, especially vivid when they fly \u2013 which they do often, chasing each other in big swoops from tree to tree. I used to know them as Myrtle Warblers, before they were classified together with their western counterparts as Yellow-rumped (or butter-butts, as birders often call them), and though the more general name is descriptive, \u201cMyrtle Warbler\u201d appeals much more to the imagination and captures something of their shrub and forest-loving habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 22 \u2013 another beautiful, clear, sunny fall day, breezy and cool, with a big blue sky marbled in high white clouds \u2013 I first heard the sharp chip! calls of several Yellow-rumped Warblers in a row of young water oaks along the road. Because it was late in the morning with the sun high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/birdingnotes.sigridsanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}